Rufescent Tiger Heron nest

Licence: 
Creative Commons Licence
Description: 

the nest was about 4 m up in a big Macrolobia tree in igapó forest at the edge of a Lake Canangüeno, Cuyabeno NP, Scumbios. The adult was incubating but left the nest when we came to close with the canoe. The egg was close to 10 centimeters and white, can just be seen on the picture.

. Photographer: Ahlman, Roger. Publisher: Ahlman, Roger.

Creator: 
Roger Ahlman
Taxonomic name: 
Tigrisoma lineatum (Boddaert, 1783) (Taxon Pages)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith